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== [[Film]] ==
* This happens in ''[[The Godfather]]'' when Sonny decides to "go to the mattresses" after the attempt on his father's life, although there is remarkably little violence seen on-screen. The story of the mob war is told through newspaper headlines while Tessio plays on an out of tune piano.
* Disney's The Rescuers,{{context}}
* ''[[Gangs of New York]]'' - In the movie it's immigrant Irish gangs vs. native-born Americans. In the book, it's basically every immigrant group vs. every other one. One memorable passage is about a street in the Lower East Side where all the Irish immigrants lived across the street from all the English immigrants. They'd go to work, go to their various pubs, get hammered, and then spill into the street and brawl ''almost every day.''
* ''[[Romeo Must Die]]'' featured a [[The Triads and the Tongs|Chinese Mob]] and an African-American [[The Syndicate|Syndicate]] on the edge of war.
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* ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'', the first film of the [[Man With No Name Trilogy]], features this with the Baxters and the Rojos, two families vying for control in a small town.
** And the remake ''[[Last Man Standing (film)|Last Man Standing]]'' does this again, except with Italian and Irish mobs replacing them.
*** And the film which both of them are remakes of, [[Akira Kurosawa
**** Which in turn may also have been based on the [[Dashiell Hammett]] novel ''[[Red Harvest]]'': See the Literature example below.
* In ''[[Scarface]]'', mob war is part of what allows Tony Montana to rise to the top of the Miami drug trade. Later when [[Even Evil Has Standards|Tony's standards]] get in the way of him doing business with [[The Cartel]], his group gets wiped out in what is not so much a Mob War as a [[Curb Stomp Battle|Mob Curb Stomping]].
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* The title character of ''[[Lucky Number Slevin]]'' becomes the pawn of two mob bosses hostile to each other.
** The key plot element is that it is still a Mob [[Cold War]] and neither is willing to start a shooting war yet. The protagonist is useful since it can be made to look like he acted on his own and not on the orders of one of the mob bosses.
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